Rose Macaulay Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

• So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

  Rose Macaulay

  Sports, Opportunity, Games

• One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

  Rose Macaulay

  Children, Thinking, Giving

• How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.

  Rose Macaulay

  Selfish, Compassion, Giving

• Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

  Rose Macaulay

  Giving, Interesting, Doubt

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